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Tactile Icon Designs
This space displays tactile icon designs and how they are used to label appliances. Each post includes a text description of the design and comments from the developer.
The tactile icon collection is quite large and I have labeled over 100 different appliance models. This space will be updated periodically.
Your comments are welcome and encouraged but please, please, please be respectful. Thank you!
Update!
HALOS collection of tactile icons has been updated and displayed in a single document. Check out the HALOS Tactile Icon Collection post.
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HALOS Tactile Icon Collection v2
The collection of tactile icons used for non-visual labeling. Available as a PDF download (with alt-text!).
Tangible Surface Research
Jul 7, 20231 min read
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Tactile Icon - Surface Light
Description A horizontal line with a nub on the bottom center. The nub represents a light shining downwards. Designer Comments Created...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 26, 20231 min read
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Tactile Icon - Headphones
Description The shape is a circle with a nubs on the left and right, like a head with big ears. Designer Comments This icon was created...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 26, 20231 min read
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Tactile Icon - Crisp
Description The shape has two diagonal lines connected at the top, like you bent something crispy and it broke. I think the shape is...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 26, 20231 min read
7 views
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Tactile Icon - Bedding, Bed
Description The shape is a wide rectangle with a small nub at the top left, depicting the side view of a bed. Designer Comments Bedding...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 26, 20231 min read
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Tactile Icon - Baked Goods, Proof
Description The shape is a square with a bulbous top representing a muffin or baked bread. Designer Comments This icon was created for a...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 26, 20231 min read
4 views
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Tactile Icon - Moon
Description The shape is a crescent. Designer Comments This shape was created for the Over Night button on a Whirlpool dishwasher.
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
4 views
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Tactile Icon - Arrow (open)
Description Open Arrow HALOS tactile icon. Two diagonal lines meeting at the top middle. An arrow shape used for indicating direction....
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
6 views
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Tactile Icon - Vegetable
Description The shape is like a broccoli floret or a tree - a narrow base with a fan-like top. Designer Comments The broccoli floret is a...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
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Tactile Icon - Turntable
Description The shape has a wide slightly sloped top and a smaller square bottom. Designer Comments This is a common feature on...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
5 views
0 comments
Tactile Icon - Speaker/Volume
Description A triangular shape where the right side is a long vertical edge and the left side is a nub (instead of a pointy vertex). The...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
2 views
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Tactile Icon - Popcorn
Description Rounded shape, with little rounded nubs at the bottom . It represents a popped kernel. Designer Comments This is a great...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
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Tactile Icon - Display
Description A square shape with a triangular base. Designer Comments Not much to say. It looks like a display thought the screen part...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
4 views
0 comments
Tactile Icon - Fish
Description Tactile Icon - Fish. A horizontal shape, the left end is an oval like a fish body and the right end is triangular like a...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
2 views
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Tactile Icon - Melt
Description A horizontal line with a bump in the middle, like something is melting and spreading out. Designer Comments The melting shape...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
3 views
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Tactile Icon - Chicken
Description A horizontal shape, a larger oval on the left end and curves on the right end, like a baked chicken leg. Designer Comments...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 23, 20231 min read
6 views
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Tactile Icon - Beef
Description A shape in a V formation with a rounded base. Designer Comments The shape is like the head of a cattle - the bottom is the...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 22, 20231 min read
2 views
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Tactile Icon - Shopping Cart
Description A square shape with a slightly vertical line at the top left and rounded corners on the bottom. Designer Comments Visually it...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 22, 20231 min read
3 views
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Tactile Icon - Frozen Entree
Description A jagged horizontal line. Designer Comments The horizontal shape represents something long and short, like a plate. The...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 22, 20231 min read
8 views
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Tactile Icon - Stove Burner ID, 5 burners
Description These shapes represent a five burner arrangement on a stove. Each shape is composed of 5 circles arranged 3 across the top...
Tangible Surface Research
Jun 22, 20231 min read
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